The Game (dice game)

Game of the Year: Special Price " Beautiful Game " 1980

The game is a dice game of games author Reinhold Wittig. It appeared in 1979 in Wittig's Games Publisher Edition guinea fowl and received by the jury Game of the Year special award " beautiful game " in 1980. 1986, the game of Franckh cosmos was re-laid. Then in 2004 appeared a new edition of Abacus games with only 166 cubes which can be expanded through the game, published in 2005 55.

Game material

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Reinhold Wittig produced the game platform on which to offset the cubes can be stacked one above the other and then encouraged the purchaser, in addition own games with this game materials to invent:

I have often been asked how to do that, invent games. The answers, I would now like to add a short, perhaps shows the many different ways a game invention is best. This response is simultaneously an invitation:

Reinvent yourself rules to the dice pyramid. Play with numbers, with colors, with chance, especially with the fun!

On the website of Spielonaut it is stated

Since the game from the always tried to commitment and creativity eighties comes, a time when the mere " Consumption" frowned upon even in games friends was waived author Reinhold Wittig in the first edition deliberately rules - you should still think of themselves that.

With the game platform and the 281 cubes can be more than 50 different games, including strategy games as well as games of chance and games of skill. You can use the cube as either tokens or as building material. A whole series of games is also suitable for three participants without a player 's advantage or disadvantage.

Was there in the first edition still a booklet with more than 50 games, then it remained only five remaining, with a new has been added. But still, the players are invited to create their own games and send them to the manufacturer. The most interesting proposals will publish Abacusspiele on its website, the publisher.

The non-fiction author and game inventor Erwin Glonnegger raises this game in his games book especially apparent when he writes:

This game is a milestone on the path that led in Germany of the late 20th century to a culture of parlor game, as it is unique since then.

Game variations

The more than 50 game options are divided into the following categories: